I don't know the circumstances either. But I doubt the ref is doing it for the "power." Maybe he's trying to give back to wrestling and doing his best with people screaming in his face all day. I know I had to" argue" a call during Districts. If you want to call it an argument. I requested a meeting, before leaving the mat, with the head ref so we could talk about it. Believe me, our "talk" was difficult with others yelling and screaming their thoughts. I tried to be a professional about it but at the same time explain, per the rules, what I saw was called incorrectly. We worked it out and wrestled from there.

Got home and watched the D1 finals and found my self acting like I was coaching matside. On a questionable call, my boy commented that if it was a kids match, you'd have someone standing in the middle of the mat screaming like a madman. I think to many of our kids coaches are setting a bad precedent with their behavior matside. You don't see that behavior at the top level but for some reason it's ok with kids wrestling. From what I've learned, sometimes those that yell the loudest or act the toughest are the most weak!.

In the end it's still kids wrestling and I hope we conduct ourselves in a way that the kids will look up to us.